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Re: Tabbed html interfaces using perl??
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 21, 2004 at 06:20 UTC
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It sounds like you don't quite know how to maintain state yet. Here is a very basic example for you that uses a dispatch table of sorts. The actions are typically references to functions so that the script does different stuff for each action.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header;
my $script = '/cgi-bin/tabs.pl';
my %actions = (
tab1 => 'This is tab 1',
tab2 => 'This is tab 2',
tab3 => 'This is tab 3',
summary => 'Summary',
search => 'Search page',
);
my @tab_order = qw ( search tab1 tab2 tab3 summary );
my $action = $q->param('action') || 'search';
$action = 'search' unless exists $actions{$action};
display($action);
exit 0;
sub display {
my $action = shift;
my @tabs = map{ $action eq $_ ? "[$action]" : make_link($_) } @tab
+_order;
my $html = "<p>@tabs<hr><p>$actions{$action}";
print $html;
}
sub make_link { qq!<a href="$script?action=$_[0]">$_[0]</a>! }
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Re: Tabbed html interfaces using perl??
by pernod (Chaplain) on Oct 21, 2004 at 06:21 UTC
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Or you could read up on CGI::Widget::Tabs, which will probably take you part of the way. We're experimenting with this module here at $firm, and it seems to work just fine.
Have a nice day.
pernod
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Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.
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Re: Tabbed html interfaces using perl??
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 21, 2004 at 05:03 UTC
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so far i have a template of the html page i want to display. the way i have set it up is that , its not tabs actually, but just gif images which give the look of tabs , but are essentially linked to another html page. so what i have is four different html pages for displaying the four arrays.
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The only portion of your question that relates to Perl can be answered by saying, "Use print to output whatever HTML you wish for your script to produce."
What HTML (and Javascript) is needed to produce the look you're after on your website is... an HTML / Javascript question, and should be posed to an HTML or Javascript forum.
As an aside, if you're struggling with CGI in general, pick up the book, "CGI Programming with Perl". If you're unfamiliar with Perl, start with "Learning Perl" first, or the CGI book will lose you quickly. Both of those books are published by O'Reilly & Associates. It will also prove beneficial (if not crucial) to read the documentation for CGI.
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Re: Tabbed html interfaces using perl??
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 21, 2004 at 05:03 UTC
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The hell you say.
Not saying that necessarily answers the OP but if you just render all of the arrays' results into CSS tabs, that might be it. It's not perl that's doing it, but perl can certainly write the CSS and HTML to do it.
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The hell you say, those are lists, not tabs.
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True, but then computers do not have tabs either. File folders have tabs, some books have tabs, soda cans have tabs (of a different kind), but not computers. Computers only have a tab metaphor.
The metaphor used in a browser with tabs, or a configuration screen with tabs, or an HTML page with tabs is consistent to the degree that each has a set of user interactable elements called tabs and each tab is associated with a set of widgets or content and that when a selected form of interaction (typically a mouse click or keyboard navigation) is performed on a tab the content or widgets of the previously active tab are removed from the screen and the content or widgets of the newly active tab are displayed.
That a tab is rendered by the OS, by an application, or by HTML/CSS does not negate the common metaphor they share, so if any are tabs they are all tabs.
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